Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-02-03
From our Regular Correspondent.
Madison Matters.

Madison Matters.
MADISON, Wis, January 3l.-The
Legislature has now over forty bills on
the Senate calendar and over l40 on the
Assembly calendar. The bill intro
duced By Mr.. Hadfield, aiming to repeal
the law of 1885. relating to woman
suffrage in school matters. was killed
last week. Mr. Luchsinger introduced
a bill to appropriate $4,000 fol-. the
construction of Science Hall at the Uni
versity. and 500. 900 for the equipment
of the same. Mr.. Grinde introduced q
bill to pay John Sullivan $4,000 for in
juries sustained by fall at the Univer-
sity buildings. Senator Schofeld intro
duced bill to provide for the appoint
ment by the Governor, of Commits
sioner of Mineral Statistics, whose duty
1t shall be to visit the various mining
districts throughout the State and to
pinspect ores, report annually upon the
same, and publish 1000 copies of the
report. His salary is to be $4,000 per
year, which is also to cover the expense
of publishing the 1000 copies of the
report. Senator Ware introduced two
bills laying heavy penalties upon the
abduction of women, and also enabling
community to rid itself of house of
ill-fame, by arresting the occupants of
the house without knowing their names.
These bills are aimed at the dens in the
northern part of the state, where such
disgraceful work has been carried on
among the keepers of 'dance houses.
Senator Kidd introduced bill to
authorize the removal of chronic insane
patients from the State hospitals. Chat
is, patients sent from the State.at-large.)
to the various county asylums. Such
county is entitled 10 present bill for
the clothing of such patient and So 90
per week, to be paid out of the general
fund of the State.
Senator Fritz. the Milwaukee labor
senator. last Wednesday,, offered reso-
luton to have committee of five sena-
tors appointed for the purpose of inquir-
ing into certain statements made on
page 36S Of the report of Frank A.
Flower, State Commissioner of Labor
Statistics. The part referred to, Fritz
claims, are personal cuts at Mr.. Fritz
and his friends The parts referred to
is a mention of certain alderman in
Milwaukee. who, last spring agitated
in favor of the eight-hour law. Mr..
Flower says that the alderman referred
to employs clerks who work from 5 u.
M. TO z p. NJ. Mr. Fritz says he is the
alderman referred to, and that he has
never made it the rule of his store to
have clerks ut work earlier than 6 d. M.
He accuses Flower of publishing cam
paign document at the expense of the
State, and thinks he should be ousted.
The resolution was referred to the Com
mittee ON State Affairs. The bill pro-
vIding for the purchase of stationery
for the state departments for the next
two years was passed by both houses
last week A committee of eighteen,
six senator's and twelve assemblymen,
was appointed on Friday to redistrict
the State into senate and assembly dis
tricts. The senators are Geo. G. GiRty,
j. w. Hoyt, Geo. +. Merrill, JAS. +.
Ware, John Carey and VIM. Kennedy.
The assemblymen are Chas. 5. Taylor.
John Luchsinger. w. j. McEIroy, j. G.
Reynolds, c. E. Hooker, Geo. Spratt, j.
W. Perkins, l.. s. Fisher. Chas. Hall,
Ed. Keogh, Fred Horn and John Grim
shaw. The assembly committee on
cities was increased to nine members;
it is, J. K. Brigham, Frank Avery, IL.
G. Hetzel, G. A. Knapp, E. ID. Hoyt. G.
Rahr, j. B.McLeran, NJ. Dunn and I. j.
Cunningham. MIR. Brigham introduced
bill for the remuneration of Bentley
& Nolan, contractors, for the recon-
struction of the south wing of the capi-
toll after it fell in 1888. A bill for
$17. 3S9 was introduced by Senator
Maxwell to pay John Trumbull, Little
John and Anderson for the extra work
they did on the new buildings at the
University, and to pay for materials
used, and yet unpaid for.
On Monday night, January 81, bill
was introduced by Sam. 5. Miller, of
Trempealeau county, for the establish
ment and maintenance sof separate
and independent agricultural college for
the State The scheme of the proposed
college is to have n board of eleven
regents, nine from the Congressional
districts and two from the State-at-large.
eight of whom shall be practical
farmers. Then another bill will come
up for the purchase and furnishing of
grounds for the annual fairs of the
State Agricultural Society. Mr.. Nc
Elroy, of Milwaukee, it is supposed,
will introduce the BILL. hoping to secure
the fair al Milwaukee The bill will
provide for the sale of the old grounds
at Madison, known as Camp Randall,
and will appropriate 100000 for the
purchase of grounds at Milwaukee.
There are now bills enough introduce
ed or in sight, asking for appropria-
tions, to aggregate nearly one million OF
dollars. They are divided as follows:
For Director of Washburn Observa-
tory, $4,000; for a Commissioner Of
Mineral Statistics. $1,000; Farmers
Institutes, $4,000; for use of fish
wardens, S12, 900; for stationery in
State departments, $500; for monu-
ments at Gettysburg in honor OF the
Wisconsin troops who fell there, $4,000;
for Science Hall and equipments, $780,
600; for parties injured at falling of the
south wing of the capitol in 1888, $780,
900; for agricultural college, 100000;
for one game warden. $1,000; for Bent
lev & Nolan, $4,000; for INDECENT
schools at Sparta, $4,000; for state
board of supervision. to defray running
expenses of state charitable and pen al